Things that people say wrongly....but they're too old to be corrected

[Moomin8]

When I was about 18 I had a boyfriend who used to call Valentine's Day 'Valentimes ' day.

My gran - Mataland, Center Parc.

My best friend - Hearst, he also always says "I broke" in the car instead of "I braked", not understanding the past tense of the word properly.

Also annoys me when people say The Asda, or Home and Bargains..
Friend who says right-away instead of right of way.

My dad pronounces "lunch" as "lunsh", and this annoying habit was very nearly cited in my parents' divorce (I told her it was not a good enough reason lol. Not really a mistake I don't think, more just pronunciation.

I have another friend and I don't even know why this annoys me, but if he's telling you about something he will always use "which" instead of "that". "The one which is over there" instead of "the one that is over there", or "the one which I won" instead of "the one that I won". That has always grated on me for some reason.

Disinterested instead of uninterested. It's so common and generally accepted now that it's almost becoming the norm.

And I swear, people who use "why" instead of "while" are the worst in my book.

You can almost get away with it when speaking as I am aware that they don't sound too different - but when writing on social media, get it right. Have they never read a book?

"Having some fun with Thomas why mummy is at work".. NO!

My friend and her parents moved into her late grans house and she was telling the "group" it still had it's original Dildo rails

My DH has difficult with the TH sound (English is his second language but he was born in the U.K. and has always lived here!)

So think “Thirst place” or “thickle” (first/fickle)

A friend says skellington for skeleton and bro-chay instead of brooch

Ragers.

CloudPop yy to disinterested/ uninterested.

Also 'enormity' where the correct word is 'scale' or 'extent'.

People think the word is related to 'enormous'.

It is related to enormous

My Mum saying "restrong" for "reataurant" gives me the rage.

Restaurant*

'Convent' Garden(s) - to be fair, there was a convent there.... centuries ago.
Skellington.

Enormity used to only mean a grave crime or sin, and using it meant you didn't refer to its meaning. You would not say 'the enormity of the crimes against humanity'. The crimes against humanity was the enormity, a noun.

Now because the meaning has shifted to relate it to the word enormous, an adjective, it is used as a descriptor of a specified crime or sin to indicate gravity or scale, or the size and scale of a glacier, or the vastness of the wide open prairies of Saskatchewan, etc.

^yeah that's how language works. Doesn't mean it's wrong, per se

Farther instead of father
Surely they're homophones?

That particular example stemmed from people trying too hard and simply getting a longish word wrong.

Another example of getting it wrong is use of 'I' instead of 'me'.
"They invited the kids and I to the picnic.'

Hopefully in that case getting it wrong won't by force of sheer numbers cause it to end up the same as 'enormity', because it's everywhere. Even Barack Obama wasn't immune.

MongerTruffle only if you have a non-rhotic accent.

SunshineAngel no, they have never read a book.

Now because the meaning has shifted to relate it to the word enormous, an adjective

Chambers gives definitions for the adjective and lists them as "archaic" which implies it's been an adjective for a very long time.

Wrong use of 'I' really irritates me. How can people not hear that it's wrong?

Any hyper-correction is annoying because invariably the sayer says it with such conviction and tends to believe everyone who is using 'me' correctly is actually wrong!

The use of 'enormity' to mean great size continues to be regarded as non-standard, according to many usage notes, and to me.

'Usage' is another interesting clanger.

My DH used to always say custificate for certificate. But the one that caused me most rage was skelenton. Aarrghh! And hurst for hearse. Double aaarrgghhhh!!

Oh and when people say 'myself' in the wrong way, eg: "John and myself will be looking at that" Rage rage rage!

I've got a cousin who

Puts things 'on a peddle stool'

😩

I agree, @mathanxiety about 'enormity'